Daniel Peterson wrote:Reality check time!For Trevor: You are quite right to have been "creeped out" by me. I'm extremely creepy. Horses neigh, dogs howl, flowers wilt, lights flicker, and thunder crashes when I walk by.
For Jersey Girl: I've never heard of anybody "outing" anyone because that person had "doubts," let alone of any ecclesiastical directive to do so. Nor, as a bishop, would I welcome the kind of snitch-like behavior that you rightly term "cultish." I think you're too trusting of the portrayal of Mormonism that you get from some on this board. At the least, the church depicted by several of the posters here bears little resemblance to the community that
I know.
For antishock8: You need to get back on your lithium.
Mister Scratch wrote:I do nothing different from what routinely appears in the pages of FARMS Review.
Sometimes I almost think that Scratch actually believes that's true.
Mister Scratch wrote:Nor do I do anything much different than DCP's "RfM sig-line archive."
Which has now swollen to a massive 42 items, averaging roughly two lines each.
There's some pretty funny stuff in it. I use my little collection, mainly, as signature-line material in e-mails to friends.
Mister Scratch wrote:Never have I, for example, contacted somebody's family, as DCP has done.
I've known GoodK's father for roughly twenty years. There's no secret about GoodK's atheism; GoodK's father has been fully aware of it for a long time, as have I. That wasn't the issue. When I saw GoodK posting mocking words about his father on a public message board, though, and realized who GoodK must be (since his father had sent the same letter about GoodK's critically ill sister to me that GoodK was lampooning here), I was shocked and appalled. I went back and forth. I didn't want to add to my friend's stress, since having a daughter hospitalized at death's door was already horrible, but I reasoned that, if it were my son who was making fun of me as a superstitious fanatic and a blowhard on a public message board while my daughter (his sister) was fighting for her life, I would want to know. So, finally, after several hours of internal debate,
I sent a note to GoodK's father calling his attention to GoodK's comments about him. I also apologized to GoodK's father if my action was inappropriate.
Shalom!